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Two titans lock horns over XML
News Rodgers pointed to OASIS' forthcoming registry and repository, which OASIS made available this week as a draft specification, as the best place for industry groups and other interested parties to submit their XML schemas.
[December 9, 1999, 10:19]
Apple launches QuickTime 6
News We've made a lot of progress as an industry working with MPEG LA, moving them considerably from where they were six months ago," said Frank Casanova, Apple's director of QuickTime product marketing. They're primed to release a set of terms that the...
[July 16, 2002, 9:48]
Newest Napster keeps users honest
News I suspect this is Napster's way of throwing off Recording Industry Association of America (which has sued Napster for copyright infringement) by saying, 'See, we can comply with a legal format? He added that Napster was part of a music and...
[June 2, 2000, 8:25]
Hackers' video technology goes open source
News While no DivX programmers have been sued, the technology has featured prominently in other antipiracy cases brought by the movie industry. But given the technology's history as a way of swapping copyrighted files online, Project Mayo's ambitions of...
[January 17, 2001, 9:42]
Microsoft takes its own path with next-gen Wi-Fi
News Allan Nogee, a wireless industry analyst with research and consulting firm In-Stat MDR, said "it looks like that one slipped through the cracks. A Microsoft statement released on Monday indicates the company isn't about to budge in its stance, and...
[June 11, 2002, 9:12]
Supreme Court rules against file swapping
News The ruling will give the recording industry and movie studios immediate ammunition to file lawsuits against other file-trading companies. The most important message from today's historic decision is that progress and innovation do not have to come...
[June 27, 2005, 20:20]
New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless
News It will be demonstrating prototype systems at a forthcoming International Telecommunications Union (ITU) meeting in Boston next month, where it will also announce the first details of an industry association intended to standardise the integration...
[May 11, 2004, 15:20]
Companies fear costly MPEG-4 licences
News Although ISMA representatives said the group was pleased to see the outline of MPEG-4 video-licensing terms, it is asking MPEG LA to open them to industry review and discussion. The ISMA, representing more than thirty industry-leading organizations...
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Via launches 'stable' DDR333 chipset
News DDR is the semiconductor industry's solution to potential memory-speed bottlenecks created by ever-increasing processor speeds. According to some industry observers, problems have been found in some early DDR333 motherboards, with memory speeds...
[February 20, 2002, 10:08]
Split threatens Web services standards
News The W3C group has garnered membership from several companies, including industry heavyweights Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. We believe that the rallying point in the industry will be the work done in Oasis," said John Kiger...
[April 16, 2003, 12:59]
Mail Room
News If the music industry is worried about piracy, this won't stop them. If this law suit wins, it will strike a mighty blow to the games and video industry, can the country afford that? I'm left doubting you've ever really worked in this industry, or...
[April 22, 1999, 7:54]
Opera cuts legacy code for speed
News Tetzchner resisted comparisons to Netscape's bold gamble in 1998 to cast off its legacy code in favor of a new browser that would be more in line with industry standards and more easily separable into components.
[August 21, 2002, 8:28]
MovieLink expected to use MPEG-4
News It waited until January, for example, to appoint its first chief executive, industry veteran Jim Ramo. But the studios say they are eager to move quickly to the Web, in part to avoid the digital disaster that has struck the recording industry.
[April 9, 2002, 11:15]
Gates and Kennard headline Wireless 2000
News Kennard issued a warning that demand for spectrum in the US is outstripping supply, and the industry can't afford to be short-sighted about that. Kennard added that spectrum sharing is going to be more of a problem as everyone in the computer...
[February 29, 2000, 13:18]
Year-old Bluetooth vulnerability invites mobile worm
News Richard Starnes, president of security industry group ISSA UK, agreed with Rowe. Another reason that the mobile phone industry has been slow to react to Bluetooth security issues is that they expected the initial threats to come from a combination...
[August 3, 2004, 13:40]
New US law aims to be stricter than DMCA
News The movie industry "can't put our content out there on broadband until we have a reasonably secure environment. The draft would in effect turn the Internet into a pay-for-play distribution system by mandating that the industry and government design...
[September 11, 2001, 14:05]
Microsoft faces up to the netbook challenge
News The distinction that has existed around netbooks is, to some extent, a creation of the industry's mind. We are going to try [to] rally the industry around that vision. What's the industry's advantage in saying lets drive this thing to rock bottom?
[March 13, 2009, 9:05]
IBM attacks Microsoft over SOA
News As the industry looks at SOA strategy, we must not overlook the people. Microsoft has repeatedly been recognised by independent analysts as leading the industry drive toward defining and implementing open protocol standards such as XML and WS-*.
[August 8, 2007, 13:37]
US Report: CDA II looking strong
News Though civil liberties groups had made common cause with industry to fight the original Communications Decency Act in 1996 and 1997, the story was different this time. Industry lobbyists won safe harbours protecting search engines, Internet portals...
[September 25, 1998, 10:40]
Latest Linux kernel due in December
News Both programmers currently are employed by an industry-funded consortium called the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). There's a lot of pressure in the industry to keep a single operating system image.
[November 26, 2003, 9:20]
